Cookie anyone? — Debbi Fields — ball girl and cookie maker
Photos from the past have the power to inspire and intrigue, but this collection of beautiful shots have something more going on just beneath the surface. Each of these rare historical photos tells a story about a person, sure, but they can also transport us to a time and a place.
Featuring icons from the past that we all dream about, these photos are sure to induce a haze of nostalgia over everyone who sees them. They’ll take you back to most magical decades, when anything was possible and life was less chaotic.
Make sure to take a closer look at each of these photos, and spend plenty of time enjoying these rarely seen nostalgic moments in history.
In 1968, at the tender age of 13, Debbi Fields became one of the first “ball girls” for the Oakland Athletics. While her father worked as a welder for the Navy and her mother stayed home to take care of their five kids, Debbi was earning five dollars an hour to retrieve grounded balls.
Fields says that she used the money that she made from the Athletics to buy ingredients to make cookies, the one thing that she actually liked to eat when she was a child. While speaking with The Muse, Fields explained why she was drawn to baked goods:
My mother raised five children without the luxuries we have today-like a washer and dryer! Cooking was a chore she especially resented, and that showed in her meals. Since the food wasn’t as great as it could be, I used to refuse to eat. The only thing I was actually willing to eat? Cookies. I would bake my own using imitation chocolate, margarine-nothing real, because we couldn’t afford to have that in the house.
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